Summary:

This issue of the journal explores the intersection of critical conservation and Indigeneity in Turtle Island. Our aim is to uncover and restore a deeper relationship to the LAND by addressing the ongoing violence imposed on indigenous territories and peoples by colonial regimes.

Specifically, we have collected design theories and practices that engage with the concepts of land-back, land-ed, land-marks, and land-scapes. These terms respectively invite authors to redefine borders and property relationships, reflect on diasporic and displaced communities and their identities, question or reestablish symbols and institutions, and discuss their work as part of a wider landscape of interrelationships.

The editors ask: Who does the LAND represent? What does the LAND have to say? When is the LAND a deciding, influential, and/or modifying factor? Where does one 'originate' or 'arrive' from on this LAND? Why does the LAND discussion matter? How is the LAND being used as a teaching, creative and/or political practice? The goal of the journal is to gather critical reflections about our PRESENT in relation to a distant or recent oppressive PAST.

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Vol.5 / LAND (UNCEDED)

Edited by K. Jake Chakasim and Natalia Escobar Castrillon

Assistant Editor: Damiano Aiello

INTRODUCTION

K. Jake Chakasim

The Land Before Us

1. LAND-SCAPE

Lauren Wolfe

L\Land: The Unseen Scene

Shawn Bailey

Land

2. LAND-MARK

Kaamil Allah Baksh, Shawn Bailey, Honoure Black, and Lancelot Coar

Relational Architectures: Embracing Indigenous Led Paradigms for Design Process and Practice

Kara Crabb

Code-Switching and the Plastic Igloo

3. LAND-BACK

Olive Lazarus

The Land Governs Us: How Indigenous Land Occupations inform Liveable Futures

4. LAND-ED

Robyn Adams

Métis Futures through Architecture and a Cultural Landscape

Krystel Clark

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